Date: 12/30	5:00 PM
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Thurs. #1 is HERE. To help out the site subscribe to Mistah MegaManFan or support us on Patreon. With the cheap plugs out of the way here's Thursday's latest wrestling news.

Toni Storm reportedly quit WWE so abruptly that she received her release retroactively. "Turns out, Toni didn't exactly request her release... she just up and quit. Worked a triple threat at a house show last night (Tuesday) and then paid out of her own pocket to fly herself home. WWE handling it as her asking for her release and then them granting it, because after so many talents were released due to 'budget cuts' this year, it's like 'meh.'" (BSN)

Drew McIntyre and Sheamus faced off in the main event of a WWE house show in Baltimore last night -- the same show that Toni Storm was booked for before she flew herself home. Full results are below. (WBS)

* Ricochet defeated Sami Zayn
* Ricochet, Cesaro, and Erik defeated Los Lotharios and Sami Zayn
* Ridge Holland defeated Mansoor
* Smackdown Tag Team Championship Match: The Usos defeated Drew McIntyre and Kofi Kingston
* Shotzi Blackheart defeated Xia Li
* Smackdown Women's Championship Match: Charlotte Flair defeated Sasha Banks
* Baltimore Street Fight: Drew McIntyre defeated Sheamus

New WWE related videos are available below.

We've also got some AEW videos including clips from Dynamite last night.

Seeing her name trend on Twitter as she nears the end of her 90 day no compete clause, Athena f/k/a Ember Moon had this to say: "Thank you for all the love and support! I have always heard and appreciated you! SOON... I will be free and #MakeArtOutOfWar again!"

Major League Wrestling has announced that Jody Fleisch will receive a MLW World Middleweight Title shot against Tajiri on February 19th for UK promotion World Pro Wrestling.

Speaking of MLW, Mads Krugger (f/k/a Logan Creed) has reportedly signed a new long term multi-year deal with the promotion. (PWI)

4:00 PM ET. The Day 1 card has been updated. (WWE)

* WWE Championship: Big E (c) vs. Seth Rollins vs. Kevin Owens vs. Bobby Lashley
* WWE Universal Championship: Roman Reigns (c) vs. Brock Lesnar
* Smackdown Tag Team Championship: The Usos (c) vs. The New Day
* RAW Women's Championship: Becky Lynch (c) vs. Liv Morgan
* RAW Tag Team Championship: RK-Bro (c) vs. The Street Profits
* Edge vs. The Miz
* Drew McIntyre vs. Madcap Moss
* Kickoff Show Match: Cesaro & Ricochet vs. Sheamus & Ridge Holland

And here's the card for New Japan Strong New Beginning USA on January 15th in Seattle. (NJPW)

* US of Jay Open Challenge: Jay White vs. TBD
* Matt Rehwoldt vs. El Phantasmo
* Clark Connors vs. TJP
* Yuya Uemura vs. Brody King
* Josh Barnett vs. Ren Narita
* FinJuice vs. JONAH & Bad Dude Tito
* Rocky Romero & Lio Rush vs. Royce Isaacs & Jorel Nelson
* Kevin Knight & The DKC vs. Ricky Gibson & Eddie Pearl

Sami Callihan says the screws were removed from his ankle on December 23rd.

GCW's Brett Lauderdale says he doesn't want a TV deal: "Our goal going forward…we've already made an announcement, March, we're going to Atlanta and Center Stage. I want to try and hit cool venues, historic venues, new markets, just do more stuff that is cool and continue to grow markets and fanbases and make new fans along the way. I don't have a dramatic game plan of 'I want to be on TV by the end of 2022,' because quite frankly I don't want to be on TV at all, but that's another story. Do cool things, keep reinventing and finding new fans and new markets and doing what we do. Staying authentic. That's the game plan."

Mini Abismo Negro will debut for MLW in Dallas on Jan. 21st.

Here's the card for 205 Live tomorrow. (WWE)

* Dante Chen vs. Draco Anthony
* Edris Enofe vs. Guru Raaj
* Amari Miller vs. Nikkita Lyons

Here's a new Big E interview and one with Air Paris.

Drew McIntyre vows to take the Universal Title from Roman Reigns: "Absolutely, it's going to be Drew that takes the title from him. He knows that, the world knows that, I'm just giving it time. That match is going to come. For me also, it's a chance to get a kind of redo. Things have come full circle. I started my career at 22 years old on Smackdown. I was the chosen one of Vince McMahon. I was going to be the future of the company, future world champion and obviously, things didn't work out that way and inevitably I got fired and everything worked out when I came back to WWE on Raw."

A new Kazuchika Okada video is below.

Here's a new Chris Sabin interview and one with Diamond Dallas Page plus another with Tony Khan.

Drew McIntyre says he just wants Jeff Hardy to be healthy: "For one, as usual, the internet can take something and blow out of proportion. But all I'll say on the matter is I just want what's best for Jeff and for him to be healthy. As long as he's good, as long as he's healthy, as long as he's happy with his family, then Drew McIntyre is happy."

5:00 PM ET. This week's Dynamite did 975,000 viewers, down slightly from 1.02 million last week. The 18-49 demo was 0.37, equal to last week, but if you go by number of viewers ever so slightly higher as it rose from 480,000 to 485,000. (SBD)

6:00 PM ET. California wrestling promoter Kirk White has passed away at 63. Our condolences to his family, friends and fans.

As per usual The Miz credits his reality show experience with helping make him a WWE superstar.